Headwear



April 27, 1937. K. J. RIEBOLD HEADWEAR Filed May 16, 19:55

INVENTOE flasperfBE BY r 77 TOPNEY Patented Apr. 27, 1937 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE HEADWEAR poration of Missouri Application May 16, 1935, Serial No. 21,729

1 Claim.

This invention relates generally to headwear. More particularly, my invention relates to a certain new and useful improvement in headwear of the type commonly known as harvest hats.

Hats of such type usually comprise a somewhat flexible crown and brim of straw or other suitable material, and my present invention has for its chief .object the provision of a hat of the kind mentioned having a crown and brim so constructed and equipped that adjustments in the head-size to comfortably fit heads of difierent sizes may be effected with ease and convenience, aifi that the hat both normally and throughout such adjustments has desired ventilation.

And with the above and other objects in view, my invention resides in the novel construction, arrangement, and combination of parts presently described and pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawing,-

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a harvest-hat embodying my invention;

Figure 2 is an inverted plan view of the hat; and

Figure 3 is an enlarged detail fragmental view of the hat.

Referring now more in detail and by reference characters to the drawing, which illustrates a preferred embodiment of my invention, A designates a hat of so-called harvest type, which is constructed of straw or other suitable material,

and which comprises a somewhat soft or flexible crown a and a brim b, the latter projecting outwardly from the base of, and being preferably integrally constructed with, the crown a and the interior circumferential dimension of the crown a at its base providing the head-size of the hat. For decorative purposes, the crown a has a longitudinal crease I centrally in its top wall, and for standard ventilation, the crown a is provided upon its opposite sides with vertically extending hollow ribs 2 opening at their lower end to the head-opening of the hat.

Formed in the material of the hat at points suitably spaced circumferentially around the crown a and presented outwardly from the crown a and upwardly from the brim b, as best seen in Figure 1, are so-called bays 0, each including a pair of side walls 3 angular in contour in side elevation and normally suitably spaced the one from the other, and joining the walls 3 at and along their oblique margin or hypotenuse, is a neatly rounded top wall 4, the respective walls 3 being at their base and remaining side margin integral with the brim b and crown a, respectively. As so constructed, each bay opens both to the interior of the crown a and to and upon the under face of the brim b, as best seen in Figure 2, thereby increasing greatly the ventilation of the hat.

Adjacent the crown a and also adjacent their respective bases, the walls 3 of each bay 0 are provided with registering preferably eyeletted openings 5 for accommodating a strap or hatband 6, which entirely encircles the crown a and whose opposed ends 15, 6", have band-tightening or adjusting engagement with a suitable buckle or other co-operable fastening-member 1.

As constructed, the crown w at its base or head-opening has a normal head-size and, as previously stated, the walls 3 of the respective bays 0 have a normal spacing. However, through ready manipulation of the band-ends 6', 6", in co-operation with the buckle 1, the band 6 may be adjustably tightened upon the crown a, whereby the walls 3 of the respective bays 0 are pulled together and the normal spacing therebetween reduced, with a consequent and according reduction in the normal head-size of the hat.

Thus, with facility and convenience, the headsize of the hat A may be adjusted to comfortably fit heads of different sizes. However, irrespective of the particular head-size of the hat, the several bays 0 afford large ventilating openings between the hat and the head, which adds immensely to the comfort of the wearer.

The hat may be inexpensively and economically manufactured and answers to, and in every respect fulfills, the object stated, and it is to be understood that changes in the form, construction, arrangement, and combination of the several parts of the hat may be made and substituted for those herein shown and described without departing from the nature and principle of my invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is,-

A ventilated hat comprising a semi-rigid noncollapsible crown, a correspondingly semi-rigid non-collapsible brim joined at its inner margin to, and extending laterally outwardly from, the lower margin of the crown, the crown and brim being jointly interrupted to include a plurality of bays spaced circumferentially of the hat and each bay having normally approximately parallel side walls joined by a sloping flexible top wall and the side walls being presented radially outwardly from the crown, each bay providing an air-channel opening to, and in open communication with, both the interior of the crown and the under face of the brim and said side walls being formed adjacent the base of the crown wall with registering slots, and a band extending through said slots and adjustably bearing upon the exterior of the crown for co-operatively shifting the respective side walls of the bays for selectively reducing the normal head-size of the hat.

KASPER. J. RIEBOLD. 

